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Before buying an expensive software for data recovery, don't forget about Photorec[0] and its dangerously powerful brother TestDisk[1]. It will be able to help
by G4E 5y ago
Before buying an expensive software for data recovery, don't forget about Photorec[0] and its dangerously powerful brother TestDisk[1].
It will be able to help you more often than not, and it's FOSS.
[0] https://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec https://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec
[1] https://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk https://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk
- pavel_lishin 5y agoI don't think $79 is particularly expensive to recover half a terabyte of valuable photos, but thank you for the recommendation!
- sigg3 5y agoIt's expensive if you ain't got it. I used testdisk as a student living on loans :)
- iluvcommunism 5y agoI tried using test disk but I had an obscure situation. I was recovering from a failed REFS pool.
- smoldesu 5y agoIt's considerably more expensive than $0, and just because $79 doesn't seem like a big issue in the heat of passion doesn't mean that you won't kick yourself for it later.
- webmobdev 5y agoLet me also chime in with a free and open source decent alternative to LightRoom - https://www.darktable.org/ https://www.darktable.org/ ...
- squarefoot 5y ago+1 for TestDisk. That gem literally saved my butt years ago when a controller failure on my old NAS almost destroyed all my data by turning all disks (Linux soft RAID1) into unreadable doorstoppers. And it wasn't like just a damaged partition table or anything like that; each file had to be recovered and copied elsewhere.